47 weeks

So, we’ve been at home for just over 47 weeks. It’s getting extremely long in the tooth. Quarantine humor and family projects and such have largely given way to resignation, limping through each day, and profound disdain for cooking another meal. I am telling y’all the truth- if schools are going to stay closed, they need to start sending our kids lunch. Well, the private schools do. I have one child in private and one in public, and I really think that since we have gotten zero tuition reduction, they could send Oliver lunch once a week. Good god, I am sick of the kitchen. Starting to avoid it all costs.

Meanwhile, I’m becoming a lunatic cross stitcher and embroiderer. I have mild feelings of panic about this when considered in concert with my cat, Zillow, and pajama-like clothing obsessions. Speaking of Zillow, did you all catch this SNL skit? As Joy Reid tweeted, “this hit a bit too close to home.” Lol.

Do y’all agree that the Bernie mitten memes provided such true and delightful spots of joy when they were churning through the internet?

Thank gawd for hilarious, clever people.

Well, that’s all I have for you. I’m peevish, restless, and so sick of parenting. I bet you are, too. But I’m thankful for all I do have, including supportive parents who have each gotten one dose of the Covid vaccine. Be kind, please get vaccinated when you can, and send me funny stuff when you come across treasures like the above.

26 July 2020: Sobering shit + a bit more humor

Sobering shit.

Man, y’all. The world is just broken beyond belief. A friend sent me this article today, and it’s not wrong: America is Having the Mother of All Social Collapses. It’s hard to even know where to start. We’re 100 days out from the most consequential election in my lifetime, perhaps yours too, and while I feel paralyzed many days, today I registered to work at the polls in November and also reached out to several organizations re: writing postcards to and texting voters.

If you want to volunteer to staff the polls, PLEASE register here. I have heard that especially in light of Covid, we’re in desperate need of poll workers. If you’re healthy, please help.

If you want to get involved with voter registration, postcard writing, texting, or other politically-oriented work, consider these organizations, all of which offer virtual activism opportunities:

NOPE Neighbors

When We All Vote

Fair Fight

Resistance Labs

Postcards to Swing States

Swing Left

Otherwise, pick a race and volunteer directly for the campaign. Go big with Biden, or support the great down-ballot candidates who can send cowardly, trump-enabling GOPers packing. Click on my Political Resources tab and then click on Candidates to Support for some ideas of who to throw your energy behind and why.

By the time you receive this blog in your email tomorrow, America will have lost more than 150,000 citizens to Covid-19. trump still has no national plan besides letting people die. If that’s not reason enough to get busy, I don’t know what is.

(Admittedly slim) Laugh track.

Thank you, Anne. I will soon be joining this cat.

Thank you, Liz.

23 July 2020: Some humor + some not humor

This version of Dr. Anthony Fauci, set to Alexander Hamilton, is brilliant and delightful.

This is HILARIOUS.

This is amusing (and also, OMG, so true).

And Sarah Cooper continues to keep us all a bit more buoyant with her genius How to videos. If you missed How to Cognitive, you can watch it here. I can’t wait for the one she’s working on now!

Meanwhile, John Lewis died and RBG’s liver cancer is back, and I am utterly heartbroken about both.

“Federal troops”* are assaulting Portland; Congressman Yoho called a fellow Congressperson, AOC, a “fucking bitch” and apologized only for his passion for America**; trump’s handling of coronavirus is a global embarrassment that has led to more than 145,000 deaths here, the banning of Americans from all but ~25 countries, and school closures until winter 2021 at the earliest (Jack’s school will be 100% virtual THROUGH January 2021). I am furious, disgusted, and deeply worried and sad.

*Federal troops are not a thing.

**See AOC shame Yoho here. SO deserved.

If you have had weather similar to ours lately, you are experiencing what it’s like to live in fire, and I am sorry. Stay cool, be kind, stay healthy, wear a mask, Black Lives Matter, VOTE BLUE like your lives depend on it, because they do.